Lab 1: Introduction to SPSS
You must attend your registered lab. A Lab Results Sheet will be given to you at the
beginning of your registered lab (and not before). This must be completed and handed in
before you leave at the end of your registered lab.
1. Log in to the computer using your SFU computer ID and password. Your
personal drive space (H:/) will automatically be mounted.
2. Download and save to your personal drive space the grip.xlsx file from
the course web site.
3. Open the MS EXCEL application and use it to open the grip.xlsx file.
Recommend you do not open the file by double clicking the file icon in the folder.
4. In the grip.xlsx file, modify the variable names to include units, then delete
the second row of the file.
e.g.
Grip max Right
kg
becomes
Grip max Right kg
5. Save the file with the new name gripnew.xlsx.
6. Open SPSS and open the same gripnew.xlsx file.
7. Save the data file in the SPSS .sav format as grip.sav
8. Go into Variable View of the SPSS Data Editor and assign the missing
value 99 to each of the strength, length, girth & skinfold variables. Also
assign variable labels (on next page) and value labels (where
appropriate) to each variable. E.g. SEX: Sex of Subject, 1 = Man, 2 =
Woman
9. Using Split File from the Data menu list, group the data for future analysis
split by the SEX variable.
10. Using Compute from the Transform menu list, create a new variable
which is the difference between right and left max grip strengths. Assign a
variable label to this new variable.
11. Using Descriptive Statistics from the Analyze menu list, select the
Descriptives option and select each of the right and left max grip
strengths, hand lengths, forearm girths & forearm skinfolds for analysis
(there are 8 variables total). With the split file by sex on, using the
Options button on the Descriptives dialogue box select the mean,
standard deviation (SD), standard error of the mean (SEM), and
coefficient of skewness as the statistics to calculate. Complete the Lab
Results sheet from these calculated statistics.
12. Save the grip.sav SPSS file in a safe place, for possible use later in the
course.
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Variable Name
Variable Label
Sex
Dominant hand
Grip max Right
Grip max Left
Hand L Right
Hand L Left
Forearm SF Right
Forearm SF Left
Forearm G Right
Forearm G Left
S A FAG Right
S A FAG Left
Grip Max Dom
Grip Max NonDom
Hand L Dom
Hand L NonDom
Forearm SF Dom
Forearm SF NonDom
Forearm G Dom
Forearm G NonDom
S A FAG Dom
S A FAG NonDom
Sex of Subject
Dominant hand
Grip Strength max - Right hand (kg)
Grip Strength max - Left hand (kg)
Hand Length - Right hand (cm)
Hand Length - Left hand (cm)
Forearm Skinfold - Right hand (mm)
Forearm Skinfold - Left hand (mm)
Forearm Girth - Right hand (cm)
Forearm Girth - Left hand (cm)
Skinfold-adjusted Forearm Girth - Right hand (cm)
Skinfold-adjusted Forearm Girth - Left hand (cm)
Grip Max - Dominant hand (kg)
Grip Max - NonDominant hand (kg)
Hand Length - Dominant hand (cm)
Hand Length - NonDominant hand (cm)
Forearm Skinfold - Dominant hand (mm)
Forearm Skinfold - NonDominant hand (mm)
Forearm Girth - Dominant hand (cm)
Forearm Girth - NonDominant hand (cm)
Skinfold-adjusted Forearm Girth - Dominant hand (cm)
Skinfold-adjusted Forearm Girth - NonDominant hand (cm)
Descriptive Statistics
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Sex of Subject
N
Mean
Std.
Skewness
Deviation
Statistic
Grip Strength max -
Statistic
Std. Error
Statistic
Statistic
Std. Error
19
53.168
2.0695
9.0209
.295
.524
19
52.842
2.0187
8.7993
.413
.524
21
18.819
.2326
1.0661
.360
.501
21
18.757
.2206
1.0107
.124
.501
21
7.048
.5637
2.5831
1.926
.501
21
7.095
.4875
2.2339
1.731
.501
21
28.005
.3767
1.7261
.689
.501
21
27.600
.3659
1.6769
1.192
.501
23
35.304
1.4291
6.8536
.600
.481
23
34.165
1.4800
7.0980
.700
.481
22
17.291
.2250
1.0556
.557
.491
22
17.277
.2358
1.1062
.395
.491
22
9.045
.4732
2.2196
-.077
.491
22
9.295
.5177
2.4283
.198
.491
22
24.177
.3651
1.7127
.376
.491
22
23.909
.3810
1.7870
.307
.491
Right hand (kg)
Grip Strength max - Left
hand (kg)
Hand Length - Right
hand (cm)
Hand Length - Left hand
(cm)
Male
Forearm Skinfold - Right
hand (mm)
Forearm Skinfold - Left
hand (mm)
Forearm Girth - Right
hand (cm)
Forearm Girth - Left
hand (cm)
Valid N (listwise)
Female Grip Strength max -
19
Right hand (kg)
Grip Strength max - Left
hand (kg)
Hand Length - Right
hand (cm)
Hand Length - Left hand
(cm)
Forearm Skinfold - Right
hand (mm)
Forearm Skinfold - Left
hand (mm)
Forearm Girth - Right
hand (cm)
Forearm Girth - Left
hand (cm)
Valid N (listwise)
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